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Provincial Occurrences : Yorkshire, Stafford, 



[APRIL, 



weeding, last spring, met with the nest and took 

 it, " not knowing," as she positively declares, 

 " what sort of eggs they were." After a month's 

 detention, the unfortunate girl has found friends, 

 and has been liberated, on paying 12s. costs, for 

 fees! Well may our legislators be convinced of 

 the necessity of altering the criminal and game 

 laws!!! 



At Lincoln assizes, the Postmaster of Grantham 

 was tried for overcharging the postage of letters, 

 found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for 

 seven years. 



Lately, as the excavators were employed by the 

 river Ancholme, near Brigg, at the depth of ten 

 feet from the surface of the ground, and about ; 

 foot and a ha;f lower than the bed of the river, the 

 skeleton of a red deer was found, the skull and 

 horns of which are in- the highest state of preser- 

 vation, and measure about three feet in length, 

 and nearly the same in width. The whole is of a 

 beautiful black, except the tips of the horns, 

 which are of a brownish colour. It is evident from 

 the great depth at which this ski-leton was found, 

 that it must have been imbedded prior to the 

 cutting of the river, no doubt many hundreds of 

 years ago. It was purchased for Lord Yarbo- 

 rough. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



At the asMzes at Rutland, Mr. Justice Holroyd, 

 in his charge to the Grand Jury, congratulated 

 them on there being so small a calendar, as there 

 was only one prisoner for trial a case of house- 

 breaking, concerning which, as there were no cir- 

 cumstances very remarkable, it was not necessary 

 to detain them. 



Died.] At Great Glen, G. Bury, esq., solicitor, 

 of Manchester, and secretary to the Royal Insti- 

 tution. He was in the mail on his way to Lon- 

 don, and when the coach passed Leicester about 

 two miles, the hor-es took flight, and the coach- 

 man lost all control over, them, when at length, 

 the coach was overturned, and Mr. Bury was found 

 in the agonies of death, and before medical assis- 

 tance came he had breathed his last. 



WARWICK. 



Died.] At Pyke Hayes, H. W. Legge, esq., son 

 e.f the Hon. anil Rev. Ai G. Legge. At Pailton 

 Hall, 71, Mrs. Grundy. At Dunchureh, Mary, 



property co,, S u m ,d ,o *. va,u e of ^0,060, dl of ^J^ 63ft* 1 

 which was ensured. It is suspected that this was 

 the work of incendiaries. 



A meeting has been held at Manchester, of the 

 operatives, to the number of 1 ,500, to consider of 

 the propriety of petitioning Parliament against 

 the grant of .9,000 to the Duke of Clarence, in 

 addition to his present income ; when, after a de- 

 bate, the petition to both houses was resolved on, 

 and three cheers given for their success. 



Died.] At Manchester, 74, Mr. J. H. Reichard ; 

 he \vas a native of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and 

 during forty-eight years a resident of Manchester. 



NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN. 



The commitment to Southwell House of Correc- 

 tion, for three months, of Mary Marshall, by two 

 of the county magistrates, for taking some par- 

 tridge eggs, has excited considerable attention ; 

 and perhaps a more glaring instance of the 

 odious operation of the Game Laws was never wit- 

 nessed in this free country. The victim in this 

 case was a girl not 19 years of age, the daughter 



county, and that he tax the costs ; that the sum, 

 when so taxed, be paid by the defendant, the Earl 

 of Lonsdale; that further directions be reserved 

 till the Master has made his report." It was ob- 

 served, that Lord Lonsdale had sold part of these 

 estates for .4,000, upon which his Honour said that 

 his L'irdship must account for the principal, and 

 also tlie interest of this sum, from six years before 

 the commencement of this information. 



YORKSHIRE AND CHESHIRE. 

 A society for the encouragement of the fine arts 

 lias been formed at Hull ; where, at a public 

 nitM'ting, it was resolved to erect a suit of rooms, 

 at an expense of .10,000, to be raised in shares of 

 .25 each ; .6,200 have already been subscribed. 

 There is to be an annual exhibition. 



Died,] At Thirsk, 83, Mrs. Anne Ainsley ; and 

 the next day, 81, Mrs. Elizabeth Ainsley, two mai- 

 den si ters, who always lived in the same house, 

 and are buried in the same grave. At Harden 

 Grange, 82, General Twiss, colonel commandant of 

 the royal engineers. 



STAFFORD AND SALOP. 

 Died.] AtLichfield, 82, Mrs. Madan, relict of 

 Spencer Madan, Bishop of Peterborough. 



LANCASHIRE. 



Trade again is on the decline at Manchester, in 

 almost every branch ; and, to every appearance, 

 without any prospect of revival. The markets are 

 exceedingly dull, and money very scarce. The 

 working people begin to despair of obtaining an 

 advance of wages, and they look forward with 

 great apprehension to the time when the spring 

 demand for goods shall cease. There is little 

 hope that the condition of the calico-weavers about 

 Blackburn will improve. They are fast approach- 

 Ing to the state of the Irish ; and it is not a very 

 unusual thing for a great many of their, to gather 

 together at night, when their fifteen hours' labour 

 is over, merely for the sake of the animal heat, 

 when they are closely packed in one room. It is 

 very common for two or three families to club to- 

 gether, to raise the means of procuring one fire, 

 to be used in common for the cooking of their 

 cheerless meals. 



The new power-loom factory of Messrs. Cock- 

 shott, at Warrington, was destroyed by fire, and 



NORTHAMPTON AND HUNTINGDON. 



A committee has been appointed by the House of 

 Commons to inquire into the payment of sums of 

 money on electioneering purposes, by the Corpora- 

 tion of Northampton, at the last election. His 

 Majesty's Attorney-General said, " if the Corpo- 

 ration had misapplied its funds in the manner al- 

 leged, the Court of Chancery could take cogni- 

 zance of the offence;" to which Mr. Spring Rice 

 rejoined, "as for an application to the Chancery, 

 did any man now living expect that a suit of 

 this kind would be brought to an issue during his 

 existence?" 



At the Northampton Lent assizes, sentence of 

 death was recorded against 7 prisoners, transpor- 

 tation against 5, and imprisonment, 11. 



WORCESTER AND HEREFORD. 



At Worcester assizes, 2 prisoners were con- 

 demned to death ; 13 were transported ; 12 were 

 sentenced to imprisonment for various periods ; be-- 



of a labourer at Cotgrave, who, being employed in sides sentence being deferred on several others. 



